WORK AND WAGES.
THE EIGHT HOUES QUESTION. [Special to Press A ssocxation.] LONDON, Maech 16. Lord Rosebery and Mr Asquitb both refused to receive a deputation of miners with reference to the Eight Hours Bill. Two hundred thousand boot operatives are now out on strike in England, The boot strike affects half a million employes, including women and apprentices. The majority of the factories have arranged to close for six weeks. Some of the owners are barricading windows and doors in anticipation of an attack being made on their buildings. The Union reserve fund amounts to .£60,000. [Peb Prks3 Association. I WELLINGTON, March. 18. A correspondent of the Times saya that there are sixty unemployed compositors walking about Wellington, and that even in the session not more than two- thirds of these could possibly be absorbed. It haß been again represented to the Minister of Labour that some employers are making deductions from the a men'a wages under the plea of insuring tbem against accidents. The officers of the Department have been instructed to give warning that this is a breach of the law, and that informations will be laid if the practice is continued.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 5210, 18 March 1895, Page 3
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195WORK AND WAGES. Star (Christchurch), Issue 5210, 18 March 1895, Page 3
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